English Department Course Descriptions

Summer 2006

First Session

ENGL 12 English Composition and Rhetoric (Section 001.Staff.MTWRF 9:45-11:15).  Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students analyze and create arguments.

ENGL 12 English Composition and Rhetoric (Section 002.Staff.MTWRF 11:30-1:45).  Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students analyze and create arguments.

ENGL 23W Introduction to Fiction Writing (Section 001.Professor Lawrence Naumoff.MTWR 3:00-5:00). An examination of the basic techniques of fiction, with related writing exercises involving elements such as point of view, characterization, and dialogue. Class discussion of student exercises and readings in short fiction. Late afternoon section, four days per week.

ENGL 28 Major American Authors (Section 001.Professor Philip Gura.MTWRF 11:30-1:45). Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors.  A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, and others.

ENGL 35N Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction: Writing Memoir (Section 001.Professor Marianne Gingher.MTWR 4:15-6:15). A course in reading and writing creative nonfiction, focusing on memoir. Late afternoon section, four days per week.

ENGL 42 Movie Criticism (Section 001.Professor Todd Taylor.MTWRF 11:30-1:00)

ENGL 43 The English Novel (Section 001.Professor Laurie Langbauer.MTWRF 9:45-11:15). The English novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

ENGL 85 Afro-American Literature since 1950 to the Present (Section 001.Professor Trudier Harris.MTWRF 8:00-9:30). Survey of Afro-American literature from 1950 to the present. Ellison, Baldwin, Jones, Brooks, Hayden, Gaines, and others.

ENGL 88 Southern American Literature (Section 001.Professor Joseph Flora.MTWRF 1:15-2:45). An introduction to the Southern Literary Renascence of the twentieth century: poems and fiction by Faulkner, Wolfe, Wright, Toomer, O'Connor, Percy, Styron, Jarrell.

ENGL 188 Southern American Literature (Section 001.Professor Joseph Flora.MTWRF 1:15-2:45). The literature of the South, with special attention to the Southern Literary Renascence of 1930-1950.

ENGL 392 Non-Thesis (Var.).

ENGL 393 Master's Thesis (Var.).

ENGL 394 Doctoral Dissertation (Var.).

ENGL 397 Directed Readings (Var.).

Second Session

ENGL 11 English Composition and Rhetoric (Section 001.Staff.MTWRF 9:45-11:15). Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students analyze and create writings that define social, cultural, and professional communities.

ENGL 12 English Composition and Rhetoric (Section 001.Professor Daniel Anderson.MTWRF 9:45-11:15). Required of all students except those exempted by placement tests. Students analyze and create arguments.

ENGL 20 British Literature, Chaucer to Pope (Section 001.Professor Edward Kennedy.MTWR 6:30-8:30). Required of all English majors. Survey of Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical periods. Drama, poetry, and prose. Night section, four days per week.

ENGL 23 Introduction to Fiction (Section 001.Professor Patrick O'Neill.MTWR 4:15-6:15). Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. Novels and shorter fiction by Defoe, Austen, Dickens, Faulkner, Wolfe, Fitzgerald, Joyce, and others. Late afternoon section, four days per week.

ENGL 24 Contemporary Literature (Section 001.Professor Mae Henderson.MTWRF 1:15-2:45). Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. The literature of the present generation.

ENGL 25W Introduction to Poetry Writing (Section 001.Professor Jim Seay.MTWRF 8:00-9:30). In addition to writing poems, students will examine the basic elements of poetry, such as imagery, figurative language, sound repetition, rhythm, and other formal aspects.

ENGL 28 Major American Authors (Section 001.Professor Daniel Anderson.MTWRF 11:30-1:00). Freshman and sophomore elective, open to juniors and seniors. A study of approximately six major American authors drawn from Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Clemens, Dickinson, James, Eliot, Frost, Hemingway, O'Neill, Faulkner, and others.

ENGL 58 Shakespeare (Section 001.Professor Ritchie Kendall.MTWRF 9:45-11:15). Study of twelve to fifteen repersentative comedies, histories, and tragedies.

ENGL 81 American Literature from the End of the Civil War to 1930 (Section 001.Professor Jane Thrailkill.MTWRF 11:30-1:00). Representative authors from the end of the Civil War to 1930.

ENGL 82 American Literature from 1930 to the Present (Section 001.Professor James Coleman .MTWRF 1:15-2:45). Representative authors from 1930 to the present.

ENGL 392 Non-Thesis Option (Var.).

ENGL 393 Master's Thesis (Var.).

ENGL 394 Doctoral Dissertation (Var.).

ENGL 397 Directed Readings (Var.).